Why? I like shorts, bite sized, shaped for mobile when I'm in bed or shitting, interesting content — my feed is very curated after many years of training it, so I only ever get interesting stuff, no brain rot . Coincidentally my Watch Later list is getting out of control.

Why? I like shorts, bite sized, shaped for mobile when I'm in bed or shitting, interesting content — my feed is very curated after many years of training it, so I only ever get interesting stuff, no brain rot . Coincidentally my Watch Later list is getting out of control.

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Well, youtube is not even intended to host quality content anymore, but besides that, this appears to just be visual tweaks. This title is trying to be vague enough that one could assume it's tweaking the content itself which would be of real concern. It's not doing that (for now). Video graphics seems like an awefully minor thing to be screaming about AI over. Especially when AI has actual reprocussions in the knowledge accuracy sector.

Stop consuming content.

I wouldn't say people are incapable of noticing the difference. most people just don't care as much as a very vocal minority of the population seems to. especially people watching shorts. nobody watching shorts is looking for quality, they're looking for short videos that don't outlast their attention span. it doesn't matter whether or not something is AI, all that matters is it engages them for ten seconds or so till they scroll to the next short, and keeps the dopamine flowing.

Looking at the vote ratio, apparently so!

“AI”

Sharpening, Denoising and upscaling barely count as machine learning. They don’t require AI neural networks.

Seems like this should be illegal, Google should be broken up, and its leadership imprisoned

I’m down for a breakup but I don’t see how we could twist this into illegality.

You could probably make it illegal to alter people's videos without their explicit consent. But also the Republicans have shown us that laws mean what the people in charge want

It likely costs them less to upscale than it does to store and serve a full sized video, so they're not giving the uploader the choice.

I had accidentally fat fingered a downvote while laughing at myself. Fixed it so your ratio looks better now.

You are right that nvidia cards can do it for games using DLSS. Nvidia also has a version called RTX video that works for video. But are they could to be dedicating hardware for playback every single time a user requests to play a short? That is significantly different than just serving a file to the viewer. If they had all of these Nvidia cards laying around, they surely have better things that they could use them for. To be clear here, the ONLY thing I am taking issue with is a comment that it seems that youtube may be upscaling videos on the fly (as opposed to upscaling them once when they are uploaded, and then serving that file 1 million times). I'm simply saying that it makes a hell of a lot more sense any day of the week to upscale a file one time than to upscale it 1 million times.

I kinda doubt you’d be able to write a law that would actually have the effect you’re looking for. In the case of what you just wrote, all YouTube would need to do is write into their ToS that by uploading to their platform you’ve given them explicit permission to alter the video for purposes of storage space or increasing/decreasing quality.

“AI”

Sharpening, Denoising and upscaling barely count as machine learning. They don’t require AI neural networks.

You could probably make it illegal to alter people's videos without their explicit consent. But also the Republicans have shown us that laws mean what the people in charge want

It's very likely to do with compression codecs to save money.